The following books constitute an introductory reading list for beginning your professional studies in architecture. Familiarizing yourself with their contents prior to entering a professional program is one good way to enhance your general preparedness for the course of study.
- 100 Ideas that Changed Architecture, Richard Weston
- Architecture: Form, Space and Order, Francis D. K. Ching
- Architecture as Space: How to Look at Architecture, Bruno Zevi
- Architecture in the 20th Century, Peter Gössel and Gabriele Leuthäuser
- Becoming an Architect: A Guide to Careers in Design, Lee W. Waldrep, Ph.D.
- Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Design of Cities, Edmund N. Bacon
- Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, Betty Edwards
- Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared M. Diamond
- Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
- Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell
- The Earth, the Temple, and the Gods, Vincent Joseph Scully Jr.
- Towards a New Architecture, Le Corbusier
RECOMMENDED PERIODICALS
Arbitare | ArchDaily | Architectural Record |
Azure |
Dezeen |
Detail |
Domus | Dwell |
Eco-Structure |
House | Interior Design |
RECOMMENDED MOVIES
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Abstract: The Art of Design, a Netflix series
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Blade Runner, Ridley Scott
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Brazil, Terry Gilliam
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Do You Trust This Computer?, Chris Paine
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Inception, Christopher Nolan
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Metropolis, Fritz Lang
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Playtime, Jacques Tati
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Rear Window, Alfred Hitchcock
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The Fountainhead, King Vidor
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The Truman Show, Peter Weir
ARCHITECTS TO FAMILIARIZE YOURSELF WITH
Frank Lloyd Wright |
Rem Koolhaas (OMA) |
Julia Morgan | Tadao Ando |
Le Corbusier | Herzog & de Meuron |
Louis Kahn | Eileen Gray |
Richard Meier | TEN Arquitectos |
Peter Eisenman | MVRDV |
Maya Lin | SHoP Architects |
Zaha Hadid | Steven Holl |
Studio Daniel Libeskind | Diller Scofidio + Renfro |
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe | Lebbeus Woods |